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Poisoned gifts commander, dimir edition!

When an opponent loses, they'll rudely return all the gifts you give them. This can obviously be very nasty, so plan accordingly; I suggest spreading the love among multiple players.

People are going to get annoyed with you, so try to leave mana open for counterspells vs e.g. removal pointed at Jon. (Try not to cry when you end up getting stuck with a Steel Golem on the battlefield and Jon in the C-zone.) Riptide Laboratory works decently too.

You don't have to gift things with Jon.

Homeward Path works well when you're down to 1v1, since your gifts will be able to attack you. You can still get extra cards by activating Path in response to Jon's draw trigger when you're attacked.

The deck has various forced creature sacrifice to take advantage of gift immunity, netting both value and less enemy blockers.

Oona's Blackguard turns into a specter upon getting its gift counters, along with any other gifted creatures controlled by the same opponent. Watch out for non-gifted enemy creatures with counters on them though! (The deck has no other Rogues, so just ignore the Blackguard's ETB ability.)

Putrid Goblin will Persist back under your control, wherafter you can gift it to clear out the -1/-1 counter on it, letting it continually return.

When gifted, Phyrexian Soulgorger's cumulative upkeep does not do anything in practice (unless its controller wants to sac some non-gifted creatures for whatever reason). If you get it back with Homeward Path, this goes for you too!

Reiver Demon will kill just a few creatures in the deck. The expections are Taniwha (which can phase out), deck: Amphin Mutineer, and Gilded Drake.

Wizard Class level 3 can give Jon some commander damage potential, albeit he's still hampered by a lack of evasion. Hell, you can even make him gift himself and take him back with Homward Path to pump him a little more.

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Date added 1 year
Last updated 9 hours
Legality

This deck is Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

9 - 0 Mythic Rares

39 - 0 Rares

22 - 0 Uncommons

15 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 2.70
Tokens Bird 2/2 U, City's Blessing, Cleric 0/1 B, Construct 0/0 C, Copy Clone, Demon 6/6 B, Dreamstealer 4/4 B, Elemental 4/4 UR, Morph 2/2 C, Treasure
Folders Commander, My (Mostly) Finished Stuff, Ideas
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